January 27, 2019 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Listen For What we listen for matters. Listening is a very complex art form that takes at least several lifetimes to master. It is also very different for all people based on their life experience and worldview. In an earlier article, I wrote about listening until you...
January 27, 2019 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Trusting intuition Are we hearing the truth, or are we hearing our ego speaking yet again? Intuition is available to us all day, every day. You don’t need to be an expert, enlightened, special, or ordinary. What you do need is the ability to hear and be present to...
January 22, 2019 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Deliberately Developmental Organisations
Powerful Coaching Questions A great coach asks outstanding coaching questions. Whether you are a leader, executive, coach, parent, teacher or manager, the quality of the question determines the quality of the response. Masterful executive leadership coaching demands...
December 18, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Sweet anger harmful aggression Aggression is towards someone or thing. It lashes out, seeking to diminish and shame. It wants to indicate power, but aggression is not fuelled by power, but rather by its absence. Anger in its purity asks us to act towards something...
November 17, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Mixed messages warped signals Communication is complex. In innocence we can communicate something, and the transmission lands distorted. The response we get is dissonant to the intention of the communication. In this little area of human affairs lies the vast chasm of...
November 15, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Humanity is the artwork The polarisation of speech On the one hand, we have political correctness. The rise of the super sensitive. “Don’t hurt my feelings” gone to the extreme. On the other, we have the rise of freedom of inappropriate speech. Hate,...
